and steam; velis et remis[Lat], on eagle's wing, in double quick time;
with rapid strides, with giant strides; a pas de geant[Fr]; in seven
league boots; whip and spur; ventre a terre[Fr]; as fast as one's legs
will carry one, as fast as one's heels will carry one; as fast as one
can lay legs to the ground, at the top of one's speed; by leaps and
bounds; with haste &c. 684. Phr. vires acquirit eundo[Lat]; "I'll put a
girdle about the earth in forty minutes" [M.N.D.]; "swifter than arrow
from the Tartar's bow" [M.N.D.]; go like a bat out of hell; tempus
fugit[Lat].
#275. Slowness.—N. slowness &c. adj.; languor &c. (inactivity) 683;
drawl; creeping &c. v., lentor[obs3]. retardation; slackening &c. v.;
delay &c. (lateness) 133; claudication|. jog trot, dog trot; mincing
steps; slow march, slow time. slow goer[obs3], slow coach, slow back;
lingerer, loiterer, sluggard, tortoise, snail; poke* [U.S.]; dawdle &c.
(inactive) 683. V. move slowly &c. adv.; creep, crawl, lag, slug,
drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber;
trail, drag; dawdle &c. (be inactive) 683; grovel, worm one's way,
steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble[obs3],
slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate|,
shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in
slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire &c.
(be late) 133. retard, relax; slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb;
reef; strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail; put on the drag, apply
the brake; clip the wings; reduce the speed; slacken speed, slacken
one's pace; lose ground. Adj. slow, slack; tardy; dilatory &c.
(inactive) 683; gentle, easy; leisurely; deliberate, gradual;
insensible, imperceptible; glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced,
tardigrade|!, snail-like; creeping &c. v.; reptatorial[obs3]. Adv.
slowly &c. adj.; leisurely; piano, adagio; largo, larghetto; at half
speed, under easy sail; at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a
funeral pace; in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings;
haud passibus aequis [Lat][Vergil]. gradually &c. adj.; gradatim[Lat];
by degrees, by slow degrees, by inches, by little and little; step by
step, one step at a time; inch by inch, bit by bit, little by little,
seriatim; consecutively. Phr. dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit[Lat];
at a glacial pace.